aufblähen
[ˈaʊ̯fˌblɛːən]
The verdict
“aufblähen” is uncommon German (frequency #99,489 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,489
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Volumen vergrößern; rund/prall machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-aufblahen · aufblähen · German
aufblähen · rank #99,489 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,489
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH auburn
Nearest frequency peer: auburn (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „aufblähen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Atemübungen
Atemübungen
516 corpus weight
- ATF
ATF
515 corpus weight
- auburn
auburn
514 corpus weight
- aufblähen
aufblähen
512 corpus weight
- auffielen
auffielen
510 corpus weight
- Auffälligke…
Auffälligkeit
509 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „aufblähen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aufblähen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯fˌblɛːən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „aufblähen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
aufblähen is uncommon German at frequency #99,489 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈaʊ̯fˌblɛːən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aufblähen, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is aufblähen, spelled A-U-F-B-L-Ä-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1das Volumen vergrößern; rund/prall machen
- 2rund/prall werden
- 3sich wichtigmachen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aufblähen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Einige Ökonomen hatten zuletzt gefordert, die EZB müsse mit groß angelegten Wertpapierkäufen die Geldmenge aufblähen um so ein Abgleiten in eine deflationäre Spirale von vornherein abzuwehren.
Anhaltende Kostensenkungen, um die Dividenden der Anleger aufzublähen und Barmittel für Aktienrückkäufe freizusetzen, haben äusserst negative Folgen für die Rechte und Existenzgrundlagen von IUL-Mitgliedern in aller Welt.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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